Type-writer cabinet.



H. J. BITTER. TYPE WRITER GABINET. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 18, 1909.

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HENRY J. BITTER, OF TIPPECANOE CITY, OHIO.

TYPE-WRITER CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 18, 1910.

Original application filed October 10, 1908, Serial No. 457,080. Dividedand this application filed March 18,

r 1909. Serial No. 484,263. a

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY J. BITTER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Tippecanoe City, in the county of Miami and State of Ohio,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type- WriterCabinets, of which the following is a specification, reference being hadtherein to the accompanying drawings. I

This invention relates to improvements n typewriter cabinets, and thepresent appl1- cation is a division of original application filedOctober 10th, 1908, Ser. No. 457,080, disclosing, but not claiming, thepresent subject-matter.

The feature of the invention covered by this application embraces thetypewriter case of the cabinet, and the door and its mountings forclosing such case.

The essential features of this door and its mountings are the positionof the door out of the way in the extreme upper part of the typewritercase, when the door is open, and the supporting rods or guides for thedoor adapted to form a slide for the door to travel on, and to also format one end a hinge-like part for the door to turn on when being openedor closed, and to hang on when closed, such movements of the door to befree from binding or sticking.

In the accompanyin drawings Figure 1 is a transverse vertica sectionalview of a typewriter cabinet, with my improvements a plied thereto, andwith the door in a cl osed position; Fig. 2 is a like view, with thedoor in an open position; and Fig. 3, a detail sectional and plan viewof one of the front or rear walls of the cabinet and one of the doorrods, showing its connection therewith.

In the application above referred to and in the accompanying drawings,the upper part of the cabinet is shown as comprising a typewriter case.This structure is made up of a frame or casing having front and rearwalls 1, a side-wall 2 anda door opening 3 at the opposite side, with atop 4 and a typewriter support 5, adapted to slide in and out of thecabinet on rollers 6 and in a grooved guide 7, in which travel rollers 8carried by the support. These several features are embraced in saidother application and are only shown in this case for facilitating anunderstanding of the present invention. This support 5 forms the bottomof the typewriter case 9, when shoved in, and i situated in the upperpart of the case and adapted to slide along immediately under the top 1and to rest there when it is desired to have the case remain open. Whenthe case is to be closed, this door is drawn outward and swung downwarduntil it stands across and within the door opening 3, in which positionit may rest against the jamb 11. The means of mounting this door forthese movements and difierent positions comprises a pair of rods 12,secured near the top of the case, preferably to the side-wall 2, at oneend, as shown at 13, and at the other to the other side'wall, near thedoor opening, as shown at 14. At this end the rods are bent to form aneye, through which is passed a retaining screw 15, with a washer 16intervening between the head of the screw and the eye of the rod, and aspacing block 17 secured to the wall 2. This is a convenient mode ofsecuring the rod, but it will be understood is only one of various waysthat may be adopted. A special feature of these guide rods is thedownward and inward bend, shown at 18, by means of which the door 10 ispermitted or caused to swing in an arc of a circle as it is being openedor closed, and also by means of which the door is suspended when closedand prevented from sliding inward on the rods when in that position. Thedoor carries an eye 19 that position. The door carries an eye 19 foreach rod, the eyes being near the upper or inner end of the door, whilenear the other margin of the door it rests upon the rods, when in anopen position, as seen in Fig. 2. As seen in Fig. 1, the eyes havepassed to a position on the downwardly and inwardly curved portion 18 ofthe rods. In reaching this position, the eyes hinge on these portions ofthe rods and then, when the door is closed, it comes against the outercurved parts of the rods and is prevented from moving inward until againswung 0ut ward at its lower margin.

This mode of supporting and operating the door has proved efficient inpractice, while simple and economical in manufacture. It should furtherbe stated that the guide rods, as seen in Fig. 3, are practicallyparallel with the adjacent walls of the case and are, therefore,substantially parallel with each other, and that. they stand away fromthe adjacent Walls of the case enough for the door to rest upon them.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to'seoure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with a casing, and a door therefor, of substantiallystraight guide-rods mounted in said casing, extending fPOHI'thGEI'ODt tothe rear thereof and arranged parallel with and at a'distance fromtherespective end walls-thereof, said guide-rods having at their forwardends downwardly and inwardly bent portions, a door resting near one edgeon said .rods

thereof and extending about the body portion of said guide-rods when thedoor is open and engaging the downwardly bent portions of said rods toform a support for said door when the latter is closed, said rods andsaid eyes forming the sole support for said door when it is open andmaintaining the same in a vertical position when closed. In testimonywhereof, I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY J. BITTER.

Witnesses:

\ ELLIS DAVIS,

H. VVAR'ITTER.

